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Re: [News] The Ugly Story Behind Windows Vista and the Developer Shuffles

flyer <flyer@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> In article <12128371.FuFQJdxttP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 
> newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
>> MS Insider: The Office Crew Isn't Smart Enough to Supplant Real Windows
>> Developers
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | "With Alchin retiring, MarkL and MarkZ, two of the most talented
>> | architects in MS already having left, the picture gets really
>> | ugly for the Windows division," my friend claimed, and the BV's
>> | core team members, Ian McDonald, Jack Mayo, Todd Wanke, Clyde
>> | Rodriguez and others are starting to connect the dots.
>> | 
>> | [...]
>> | 
>> | He concluded ominously. "A trainwreck of biblical proportions looms.
>> | Pick a good seat on the sidelines, trainwrecks this large take
>> | awhile to complete. Vista may be the last MS OS for some time to
>> | come, especially if Cutler decides to play hardball."
>> `----
>> 
>> http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/09/11/ms-insider-the-office-crew-isnt-smart-enough-to-supplant-real-windows-developers/
>> http://tinyurl.com/35eqrt
>> 
>> 
>> | also admitted that it has major problems in it's Windows division and has
>> | has immediately initiated a total restructure of the division..."
> 
> Restructuring. This is ridiculous.
> 
> If you move a big pile of reeking garbage all around -- if you 
> restructure it --  you still have a big pile of reeking garbage.
> 
> They don't need to restructure, they need to find at least a tiny spot of 
> honor and ethics.
> 

You know, I think that they might need to both re-organise and get some
ethics.  It will be quicker and easier to re-org, though.

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